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many of the southern states they have succeeded in fattening cattle 

 successfully on nothing but cotton seed hulls and cotton seed meal. 

 Mr. Ziegler : \\'ere the fodder and clover fed once a dav? 

 Prof. Mumford : AVe fed fodder twice a day. We fed a rough- 

 age to the cattle twice a day and grain once a day. We fed the rough- 

 age morning and night. They got all they would eat. 



Mr. Ziegler : A gentleman wants to know how you knew what 

 proportion of fodder and clover was given? 



Prof. ^Nlumford : We mixed the fodder and clover hay equally. 



Mr. . "Was it shredded fodder? 



Prof. Alumford : No, ordinary long fodder. 



Mr. : How was it fed? 



Prof. Mumford : In two dififerent ways. The first two winters 

 we left it in the field and drew it out as we needed it, not because it 

 was best but because that is the way the Missouri farmer feeds it, 

 and we wanted him to have confidence in the results produced ac- 

 cording to his own conditions, if possible. But the last two years 

 we haA^e been keeping the fodder inside with better results, of course. 

 'Sir. Ziegler: Did you feed as much as 21 pounds of grain a day? 

 Prof. INIumford : Yes, 21 pounds. 

 ]\Ir. Ziegler: Did hogs follow the cattle? 



Prof. ]\Iumford : In everv case. There was no corn thrown 

 out. This is the amount of corn the cattle actually ate. There was 

 nothing cleaned out of the troughs. It was shelled corn in every 

 case. 



Mr. . Do you call that a full feed? 



3.1r. ?^Iumford: Yes, sir. I am between the devil and the deep 

 sea; part of you seem to think the ration did not have enough corn, 

 and the rest seem to think it was too much. 



Mr. Harned : It was hardly a full feed. We count half a bushel 

 to a steer, twenty-eight pounds, or half a bushel, but you fed only 

 twenty-one pounds. 



Prof. Mumford : It was all consumed, there was no waste at all. 



]\Ir. Harned: That is about an average feed? 



Prof. Mumford: These are the results of five years' work. 



]\Ir. : Do you shelter your stock in winter? 



Prof. Mumford : Yes, in sheds open to the south. 

 Mr. Ziegler: What kind of grass did vou use? 

 Prof. IMumford: Missouri blue grass. There is nothing better. 

 The pastures were not over-stocked and the cattle were in ideal con- 

 ditions so far as the pasture is concerned. 



